The sticking points have been the amount of night games the Cubs can schedule — they will likely up it to 40 — and the presence of video boards in left field that may block the view of the fans on the rooftops across Waveland Avenue. The Sun-Times says that the team will be allowed to build the boards but that they won’t block the views as much as was feared. Underlying all of that, of course, is that the local alderman has the back of the people who own those buildings and make a mint letting people up there for games. The Cubs take a cut of that action too, but it sounds like that deal will eventually run its course and end.

It just makes too much sense for everyone to allow the Cubs to make major renovations to Wrigley so this deal was always in the cards. Just took a while to get here.

Adam Wainwright tossed a spring-high 93 pitches in a Grapefruit League appearance Tuesday afternoon against the Marlins and was officially declared the Cardinals’ Opening Night starter after the outing by manager Mike Matheny.